News that covers Rugby League in Australia.
Last night Brisbane Broncos suffered the worst loss in the clubs history, a 56-0 thrashing by the Canberra Raiders down in the national capital. You’d had to see it to really understand how terrible the loss was. Canberra led 16-0 at half time and looked to be beating the Broncos quite comfortably. The Raiders have…
Remember when the Newcastle Knights made the decision not to re-new Matthew Johns playing contract? Johns was coming towards the end of his career and the club felt it wanted to go in another direction. So they announced that they would no re-sign Johns, and all hell broke lose. It upset fans, it upset the…
Talk about something coming from out of the blue! If you haven’t hear yet, Brad Fittler will be relieved of his coaching duties at the Sydney Roosters at the end of this season and he will be replaced by Newcastle’s current coach Brian Smith. This all happened so quickly that Knights players found out via…
You know if you look back over the last decade, all these teams and players who go out and act up, it always comes back to bitch them in the arse. The Roosters are feeling the pinch in this regard lately as news comes through of another off field incident regarding someone within their club…
Watching Jarryd Hayne’s performance over this State Of Origin series has made me think a lot about the players in our game that are natural leaders. The amazing thing about Hayne is that, 12 months ago, he was a very different person. A good athlete, a great player, but off the field he was starting…
The Sydney Roosters are in dead last place on the NRL ladder and its not looking like they will get any better any time soon. The side has completely given up, they are carrying millions in bad contracts and the players they hoped would kick on never have. The one area the Roosters have looked…
Stop, wait, stop what you are doing right now! The Broncos just haven’t had a good training session for a while so we are all going to just stop what we are doing and wait until they are ready to play ok. Yeah….right…. Its funny how Brisbane have always felt that the world revolves around…
See what I did there? So Joel Clinton is talking to a girl in Melbourne for some time and when he finds himself down there he hooks up with her in the teams hotel before the match against the Storm. Two adults engaging in consensual sex, sounds normal. However by doing this Clinton has breached…
Its a rare club that one can never, ever leave. In fact it was so rare that until recently there was only one member. Now, Nate Myles has shat his way into Rugby League folk law. It not eye gouging, its not drug taking, its not foul play ever even being a poor player. Its…
The Brisbane Broncos registered Tonie Carroll on Monday with the NRL and have named him on an extended five man bench for this weekend match against the New Zealand Warriors. No, I’m serious! The Broncos are on a bad losing streak and are out of the top 8 after a few months of terrible football,…
There is a bidding war right now going on for the services of St George/Illawarra prop Juston Poore with a few clubs throwing around ridiculous amounts of money for his services. The best part is that Poore is rumored to be leaning towards taking a massive offer from the Sharks, who have no money, but…
Its be a great month for the Cronulla Sharks and it has only gotten worse today. Its been revealed that forward Reni Maitua has Tested positive to a banned substance. The test was taken three weeks ago and while some media reported that it was for either Cocaine or Ecstasy, Channel Nine and the Daily Telegraph are…
Some dirty bastard takes a picture of Willie Mason having a piss, and he is the one that gets fined. Imagine what thats like for a moment, to know that you can do somnething a bit silly and wake up the next day, not only to find it splashed all over the front page of…
The Cronulla Sharks made a very tough decision when they decided to move half of their home games to Gosford. The Cronulla Sharks, more than any other team in the NRL, are a club thats very much grounded in its local area. They call its “The Shire”, and for many years the area turned up…
The Penrith Panthers today extended Matthew Elliott’s contract through to the end of the 2011 season, despite the fact the highest position the clubs has finished under his coaching is 12th place. In charge of a club that has a wealth of talent, one that hand picks the best players from the worlds biggest junior…
There is a lot of talk lately about the poor form Darren Lockyer finds himself in early this season. While the Broncos have been a bit up and down this year, despite the fact they keep finding a way to win, Lockyer had really only shown a few glimpses of his usual for and thats…
I’ve always been a fan of Terry Campese. Even when he was struggling, I felt like he had what it takes to be a very handy player. To go from possibly being without a club in the middle of last year to making the 2008 World Cup squad was an amazing rise. He’s still raw…
So its Penrith at home hosting the Brisbane Broncos. The Broncos are one of the hottest teams in the NRL, sure they have played ugly at times, but they have also played the most outstanding football in the 2009 season as well. So to start the game Penrith look dangerous. They get a penalty 5…
The Warriors can never just settle, they always have to have something going on. We won’t go over history because we’d be here for years, so lets just look at 2009. The team is set. They had an amazing run in the 2008 finals, they got within one game of the NRL Grand Final, many…
There, I said it! Well we all know Parramatta suck, and have sucked for quite some time. So what is there problem? Well the current situation the club finds itself in wasn’t helped by former coach Michael Hagan. He was a terrible coach, a terrible leader and even now having moved on, he is publicly…
I’ve always said my priorities as a fan lie in this order: The game of Rugby League, My Country, My State, My Club. That order is basically what allows me to have unbiased views on the game. Sure I rant and rave about Penrith every so often, but most of the time I’m being critical…
First they had 14 on the field, then they didn’t have 14 on the field, then the 14th player actually scored the try…..at this point who really knows what happened. It looks like the Bulldogs are going to lose their points and that’s fair enough. When this has happened in the past I’ve been against…
The two referee’s have changed the way the game is played and we have gone away from wrestling, forward play late in the game, and we are seeing free flowing, skillful football late in games. I think this has really hurt the Manly Sea Eagles. Manly have become successful by playing the percentages. Play smart…
Sydney Roosters Hooker Jake Friend was charged with high range drink driving a few days ago. As a “P Plater” he shouldnt have had any alcohol in his system at all. As a result the Sydney Roosters fined him $10,000 but chose not to suspend him. Now, a $10,000 fine for Jake Friend is huge….
The Brisbane Broncos are tired of being stuffed around by Karmichael Hunt and as a result they have terminated contract talks with the State Of origin Fullback. Thing is, they were weak about it. They have said that they are still willing to talk about keeping him, and that they don’t want to lose him,…
I didnt have money on the match, I actually tipped the Dragons to win the game, I just loved watching a great game of footy. Then it was ruined. The Bulldogs scored an amazing 60 meter, last minute, game winning try against the St George/Illawarra Dragons. It was a grand stand finish that sent the…
South Sydney have destroyed the Sydney Roosters by a scoreline of 52-12. It would a good start to the game for Souths and it just kept getting better and better, to the point where they basically scored at will by games end. This game also provided one of the greatest moments of sporting theater I…
Hazem El Masri is now the greatest point scorer in Australian Rugby League history. The record was 2176 points and that was held by Andrew Johns. El Masri took the record in his 292nd first grade game in a remarkable career that has seen him become the gold standard for goal kickers. I think its…
The Manly Sea Eagles obviously live in a glass bubble, thats the only conclusion you can come to when you hear that they are pissed off about the handling of the Brett Stewart affair. So upset are the players that they have threatened to boycott the end of season Dally M Awards. So, lets think…
Billy Slater has jumped on the bandwagon and signed a contract extension with the Melbourne Storm. He will play with the club until at least the end of the 2012 season. You don’t need me to tell you how good Slater played last year and how he is probably a top 5 player in the…